Etymologies

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The error of the century, not then exploded, was to observe it in the letter rather than in the spirit; to regard the order as an end rather than a means; and to seek in it not merely efficiency, which admits broad construction in positions, but preciseness, which is as narrowing as a brace of handcuffs.

Perhaps what undid me was this simplicity, the preciseness of his expression, from a man in love with the words of a dead language and the appreciation for a boy who had no way to verbally express language.